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2 days ago · Books & arts Love, Oliver Nick Haslam 16 January 2025 Nothing exposes the famed neurologist as much as his letters Books & arts Dorothy Parker goes to Hollywood Sara Dowse 15 January 2025 There was much more to waspish writer than memorable (and misremembered) one-liners Books & arts Don’t turn your back on the play Susan Lever 15 January 2025 Helen Garner reminds us that there are ...
The populist phantom • Inside Story
1 day ago · The emergence of populist parties as significant electoral players in many parts of the world has been a shock to the unusually stable party systems of the decades since the Second World War, but in the longer arc of democratic politics it should hardly be surprising.
history • Topic • Inside Story
Dec 9, 2024 · Essays & reportage Zealots of the reading room Anne-Marie Condé 6 December 2024 Great Australians brought freshly researched history by fine writers and historians to a generation of Australians International Labor goes one way, Israel the other Tony Walker 6 December 2024 Australia’s vote on Gaza this week highlights a decades-long shift in the major parties’ attitudes towards Israel ...
Labor’s favoured battleground • Inside Story
1 day ago · It was 2014, Peter Dutton was health minister, and the Abbott government’s first budget announced that concession-card holders and other bulk-billed patients would now be charged $7 to see a GP. This “co-payment” was necessary, said Dutton, to make Medicare sustainable. When it became clear ...
Opening doors in Central Australia • Inside Story
The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna Wilson, and Lorna’s son Barry. Albrecht, who had come to Australia in 1925, worked in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the 1950s. There he established an enlightened and culturally sensitive ...
A steady path to sovereignty? • Inside Story
Oct 6, 2023 · The Yes/No alignments of First Nations Australians may not be an accurate guide to their differing views about sovereignty, but the debate about how to vote has at least focused attention on larger questions that Indigenous representatives will probably need to debate if a Voice is established.
Leaders and leaders • Inside Story
Nov 4, 2024 · Australia hasn’t been immune to this kind of controversy. In 2004 the Age created an outcry when it endorsed John Howard for another term in government despite a long history of editorial criticism, particularly of the Howard government’s harsh treatment of asylum seekers. Staff alleged that the paper had been ordered to back Howard by then Fairfax editorial director and later ABC boss ...
Is this our biggest miscarriage of justice? • Inside Story
Nov 22, 2024 · Since hearings began last December, the inquiry has heard forty-three days of testimony. Searches ordered by the inquiry have generated some 52,000 pages of documents that have been digitised and made easily available on computer terminals, and proceedings have been live-screened and transcribed for public access.. Facing Acting Justice Hulme are …
The strange career of the great Australian silence - Inside Story
Nov 15, 2022 · “The history I would like to see written would bring into the main flow of its narrative the life and times of men like David Unaipon, Albert Namatjira, Robert Tudawali, Durmugam, Douglas Nicholls, Dexter Daniels, and many others.Not to scrape up significance for them but because they typify so vividly the other side of a story over which the great Australian silence reigns; the story of the ...
The enemy within • Inside Story
Sep 17, 2024 · While the broader state of the armed forces was outside the commission’s terms of reference, a timely new book based on the first independent study of institutional abuse within the military has detailed the failure of repeated efforts to reform Australia’s army, navy and air force over the past half century.